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About the study

The Oxford ARC study investigates resilience and how adolescents and their parents/carers are coping with social isolation during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. We want to find out why some young people cope extremely well with stressful situations, while others find it more difficult.

We hope to better understand how psychological factors relating to worry, resilience, and social isolation affects the mental health of adolescents and their parents/carers during the challenges and uncertainties of this pandemic.

We are inviting teenagers (aged 13 – 18), and their parents/carers, to take part in a longitudinal online study.

We will ask participants to complete a survey each week for about three months and then monthly for nine months. The first one takes about 20 minutes and each follow up takes 10-15 minutes. There is also an optional task you can complete if you like.

Every participant (adolescents and their parents or carers) completing the surveys and optional tasks will have a chance to win a prize of an Amazon voucher.

Meet the team

Prof Elaine Fox

Dr Ana Todorovic

Michele Lim

Dr Sam Parsons

Dr Annabel Songco

Collaborators and contributors

Dr Susanne Schweizer (UNSW Sydney), Dr Amy Orben (Cambridge University), TRIUMPH: Transdisciplinary Research for the Improvement of Youth Mental Public Health, and the Loneliness and Social Isolation in Mental Health Network.

We would like to thank TRIUMPH and the TRIUMPH Youth Advisory Group for their insightful feedback about the study and the questions asked in the surveys.